Seol Hoon: "Shameless Park Geun-hye, Instead of Reflecting, She Keeps Bossing Around"

Seol Hoon, Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Shin-won] Seol Hoon, a Supreme Council member of the Democratic Party of Korea, criticized former President Park Geun-hye on the 6th for sending a 'prison letter' to the conservative camp the previous day, saying, "She has no right to vote and no qualification to be involved in politics, yet she has stepped forward to engage in prison politics."

Seol appeared on YTN Radio's 'Noh Young-hee's Start of a New Morning' that day and said, "Former President Park, who is in prison, is coming out saying she will do prison politics. She is truly someone who cannot foresee the future."

Seol emphasized, "Some sentences have been confirmed, and some are still on trial, so she should exercise restraint."

He continued, "The Candlelight Revolution brought shame to the world, and people said, 'Where else can you find a president like this?' If she comes out shamelessly like this without apologizing or showing remorse for that part, the public in the moderate camp will never think well of it. Former presidents are basically supposed to exercise restraint, but for someone currently in prison to not reflect and instead tell others what to do is, quite literally, a serious misjudgment," raising his voice.

In response, Hong Moon-pyo, a member of the Future United Party who appeared together, said, "You called the prison letter politics, but I think it is a letter expressing one's basic conscience," adding, "Even if she has no voting rights, I believe this is a country where one can at least express that 'South Korea should not be like this.'"

A handwritten letter from former President Park Geun-hye, revealed by her close aide, lawyer Yoo Young-ha, at the National Assembly Press Hall on the 4th.
[Image source=Yonhap News]

Hong referred to the late former President Kim Dae-jung sending a letter from prison in the past, saying, "Isn't a letter the only way for a president in prison to convey his feelings? The ruling party is fussing over the message to unify the opposition, which makes me feel the situation is reversed."

He added, "I hope the letter written by former President Park in prison is accepted purely as a sincere letter sent to the opposition for the country and the nation."